The 12 Days of Diabetes from the Health Performance Institute!

Starting December 12 and finishing December 23, we will host a FB Live video each day. The videos will be short – 3-5 minutes – and will discuss some of the things type 2 diabetics struggle with on a daily basis. A few of the scheduled topics include discussions about food and hunger, the good news and bad news surrounding type 2 diabetes, how what you have been told about exercise is probably wrong and a lot more. See the image for a list of all 12 topics.

In each of the videos, we will discuss the topic and tell you what to do so you can improve your condition.

Type 2 diabetes is a serious condition. It’s expensive and debilitating and we don’t seem to be making progress in treating the condition. If you are serious about improving your health and making real progress in controlling your diabetes, the 12 Days of Diabetes from us is what you need.

Please join us. Everything is free and there are no strings attached. Please tag all of your friends, family members, co-workers and anyone else you think should hear this information!

Click here to view this event on Facebook. When there, scroll through and click “Going” for all 12 days of Diabetes. While the first live video is scheduled for noon on December 12, we will be hosting the live video each day at a different time, depending on scheduling. So click “Going” to stay updated on the next video times!

Sleep – How to Sleep Better Right Away!

The Academy is the program we use to help people suffering from or at-risk for type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and/or high cholesterol.

The Academy is a serious program for serious people!

For those enrolled, we are completely and totally dedicated to helping them achieve what they thought was impossible. Controlling your condition and getting off your medications is difficult. But when you are told it will never happen and you live in an environment that facilitates an unhealthy lifestyle, it makes everything exponentially worse.

The Academy is our weapon of choice in helping you through this battle. Believe me, it’s a battle. And while The Academy is the best damn weapon you can have, it’s only a weapon. The objective of The Academy is to fix the root of your problem, so the condition gets better. Our recommendations are built around this and our high success rate validates this approach.

Where we really shine with The Academy, however, is in our support. If you are serious about taking control of your condition. If you are seriously worried about the long-term consequences of poorly controlled blood pressure or blood sugar (you SHOULD be), then you need to do something different.

Following the standard advice will get you nowhere.

Being a dabbler or can-kicker will get you nowhere.

If you are serious about addressing your condition, you need to enroll in The Academy

There are two options for you here.

No tire-kickers or dabblers need apply!

Option 1: You will achieve the impossible with this option.

We will not let you fail!

This is the best, most-serious and most expensive option, but if you are serious, you will likely recoup your investment within a year, just like everyone else.

Further, we are so confident in this option, we offer a 100% Money-Back Guarantee!

With this option, you get everything included in The Academy. That means access to the website, videos, audio, materials, recipes, our private Facebook group and more. Plus, the following:

8 1-on-1 Coaching Sessions, based on the following:

Mindset: We already told you that we are a serious program for serious people. The mindset sessions prepare you to meet the challenge of living in an environment that makes it easier for you to be sick. The potential pitfalls are everywhere. We get you ready to deal with them!

Food: There will be several of these, dedicated to helping you through our food recommendations. The objective: Make is easier for you, so that success is guaranteed!

Fitness: There will be at least one of these, allowing us to coach you through the right kind of exercise program based on your current needs.

Sleep and Stress: There will be at least one of these where we coach you through our recommendations on dealing with Sleep and Stress issues. In case you didn’t know, sleep and stress are MAJOR contributors to chronic conditions and health.

In addition to the above, each week we hold a weekly group coaching call. Anyone currently in The Academy can participate. This is a way for us to all get together at once, talk, seek help and get inspiration from each other so we can continue this journey.

Note on the Coaching Calls: You get 8 of them with this option of the program. You will get to decide how they are used based on the information above. Our typical member uses 2 of them for mindset, 4 of them for food, 1 for exercise and 1 for sleep and stress. But as noted, you will have some say in how they get used.

For those daring to go it alone!

You can also get access to The Academy and everything it includes without the benefit of 1-on-1 coaching. If you are ready to go, will take the program seriously and can do it on your own, this option is perfect for you!

You get everything in The Academy – website, audio, videos, materials, recipes and more. Essentially, you get everything mentioned above without the 1-on-1 coaching.

If this is the option for you, click the button to enroll today.

Here is the video!

Click below for your option to download the slides from the presentation:

Would you like to know why our chronic disease problem is so bad? Look no further than this!

This long-worded and cumbersome title means the report was trying to answer this question: “What kind of changes in food consumption can we see over the specified period of time?” In this case, that specified period of time would be 1970 to 2014.

For a little history: The late 60’s and early 70’s was when the low-fat message started hitting Americans. The USDA published the first dietary guidelines about this time, asking Americans to eat less fat, saturated fat and red meat.

Guess what? Americans, for the most part, followed suit.

There was essentially no change in protein consumption overall – a 1% change in 40 years. Not significant. However, chicken consumption increased significantly – more than doubling during the time period. Since chicken doubled and the overall amount was essentially unchanged, this means red meat consumption went down. As instructed.

High Fructose Corn Syrup

Between 1970 and 2014, the amount of HFCS consumption increased by 8,212%, going from 0.5 pounds per person per year to 45.5 pounds. This means the average American is consuming nearly 1 pound of HFCS per week!

Grain-Based Products

Wheat and corn-based products also increased in consumption, with wheat based products increasing by 31% and corn-based products increasing by 23%.

While wheat and corn-based products look and taste different than sweets, they act the same once they reach the digestive system. In other words, bread and sugar act the same.

Look Mom, It’s a Chronic Disease Carnival!

Replacing some meat products and lowering fat consumption led to an increase in sugar and processed food consumption.

Processed foods are devoid and any nutritional value. This leaves the body hungry, craving nutrition. But people continue eating processed foods. This starts a viscous cycle.

It starts with slightly, but chronically, elevated blood sugar because insulin starts losing its ability to function efficiently. It manifests itself as pre-diabetes, high blood pressure or problems with cholesterol. Then, usually, type 2 diabetes.

Over time, a person’s health continues to deteriorate because we give them medication to change a number and do nothing to fix the problem. Chronically elevated levels of insulin and fluctuating levels of blood sugar is toxic to all tissue in the body.

The shift to this dietary approach means we have chronic diseases popping up all over the place, as if we were in a field of PEZ Dispensers.

How do we fix this problem?

It’s a two-pronged approach.

First, we need a shift from quantity of calories to quality of calories.

Earlier I mentioned that people continue eating processed food when hungry. Why do they do this? Part of it is convenience. But another important part is the thought that we can eat whatever we want, as long as we eat less. This justifies eating for convenience because it’s only the amount of calories consumed that is important.

But if forgets a serious issue: If the body is craving nutrition and we never feed it quality food, we will always be hungry. Remember, foods of convenience are devoid of nutritional value. They are just calories.

So we need more focus on quality of calories. This does not imply that calories are unimportant. It only means the quality of calories is more important. Stated another way: 1,000 calories from a grilled steak salad with vegetables and an olive oil, is not the same as 1,000 calories from Twinkies and Pepsi. Our digestive system is not the same as a bomb calorimeter.

Second, we need to focus on treating these individuals once they become diagnosed. Currently, we only managing their condition by prescribing medication to change a number. This does nothing to fix the problem. If it did, the possibility of getting off medication at some point would exist. It doesn’t (unless they take it upon themselves to do something).

Dietary policy led us here and it can lead us out

If we simply make a change in dietary policy as mentioned above, we would eliminate many of the chronic conditions anticipated in the future. We need to do this sooner rather than later. Current incidence and prevalence data for obesity and these chronic conditions suggest a tidal wave hitting our heatlhcare system soon.

That’s how we get out of this mess!

Thank you!

About Brian Sekula

Brian Sekula, PhD, is the founder and CEO of the Health Performance Institute, where they work with employers, their employees and individuals to alleviate the burden of chronic conditions by preventing diagnoses or helping individuals get off their medications. They do this by focusing on fixing the problem, rather than trying to reduce a number that is a symptom of the problem.

Purpose of the Webinar: Stress the importance of improving insulin sensitivity, which is not done by conventional treatment methods.

As mentioned during the webinar, we have an offer to enroll for an exclusive discount of $150 off.

If you’d like to enroll, get access to all 10 Modules of the HPI Diabetes Academy, all of our webinars and more, click the image below to be taken to our shopping cart where you can enroll right now and get immediate access to our website!

Here is how the process will work:

When you click the link below, you will be taken to our shopping cart. Once your transaction is complete, you will be automatically taken to the “Account Creation” page for the HPI Diabetes Academy website. From that point, all you have to do is create your account and you are registered and enrolled!

What they aren’t telling you!

As a type 2 diabetic, you are keenly aware of the importance in controlling your blood sugar. Whether it is with your diet, the frequency or dosage of your medication, this point is hammered home!

But there is something they aren’t telling you.

Everything you are instructed to do is to control blood sugar:

Medication? Find the right dose so the numbers are where they like them?

Diet? These are the exchanges. Use them, but eat fewer calories.

Exercise? Go burn some of those calories you just ate!

This is nonsense.

It’s nonsense because…

Controlling blood sugar will not fix anything. Sure, you want to keep your blood sugar in check and taking your medication will help you do that. But…type 2 diabetes (and prediabetes) is a problem of insulin resistance. You’ve been told that before, right?

Insulin resistance is what causes your blood sugar to rise. Taking medication to control your blood sugar does nothing to improve insulin resistance!

So you take your medication and check your “numbers.” But what happens when your medication runs out? You need a refill or your blood sugar goes back up. Right?

This is the problem!

In order to improve your health and control your condition, you need to improve insulin sensitivity. This will allow your body to deal with the elevated blood sugar naturally, as opposed to doing it artificially with medication.

So how do you do that?

The Metabolic Problem

Outside of the obvious, type 2 diabetics are fundamentally different than non-diabetics when it comes to their metabolism. For example, at rest they burn a significantly higher amount of carbohydrates to produce calories than their non-diabetic counterparts. This is a major problem because we should all be burning fat while at rest. This holds true as they exercise – they burn a significantly lower percentage of calories from fat at all levels of exercise intensity. Beyond the metabolic and exercise differences, they have a hard time dealing with hunger and feeling satisfied because of this metabolic problem.

This is why the standard approach doesn’t work.

When you combine this with the above information – medication that controls blood sugar doesn’t improve insulin sensitivity – it is no wonder that average type 2 diabetic is told they will never be able to get off of their medication. Nothing is done to properly help them.

Improving Insulin Sensitivity is Key

There are three ways a type 2 diabetic can improve insulin sensitivity:

Proper diet

Proper exercise

The right amount of sleep

I know. Very groundbreaking, right?

But something in this list is key: The word proper! Because if the right kind of food is not eaten, the right kind of exercise is not done and if the right amount of sleep is not part of the equation, insulin sensitivity will not improve.

Proper Diet

The diet for a type 2 diabetic should do at least two things: 1) reduce the overall glucose load on the body. This will help reduce fat storage and help the liver better regulate circulating blood glucose (one of its many important functions). 2) It should promote a fat-burning state so that while at rest, a type 2 diabetic can decrease the amount of carbohydrates their body is burning. Did you even realize you could do this with the proper food choices?

Proper Exercise

Any kind of exercise is better than no exercise, but when it comes to a type 2 diabetic, some exercise is superior. Exercise that promotes fat-burning should serve as the bulk of physical activity. It is like a sledgehammer, battering your metabolism into submission and forcing it to get better at burning fat. Note: This will also help with the resting metabolism problem. So it has a nice side benefit. Another thing to mention: This type of activity should be continuous and last more than 30 minutes – with an hour being optimal. Why? Because it takes a while for your body to get into a good fat burning zone. You need to get in that zone and then stay there.

The right amount of sleep

A lack of quality sleep is associated with every chronic condition known to man. Type 2 diabetes is no different. Further, most people don’t necessarily need to go to bed earlier to improve the quality of their sleep. They just need to change a few things in the last hour or so before they go to bed. After a good dinner the night before and a good night’s sleep, your metabolism is just about perfect.

Start doing these things

If you start doing these things, your insulin sensitivity will improve. Your body will start controlling blood sugar naturally, like it is supposed to do.

The longer you do this, the more your insulin sensitivity will improve, which means in the long run, you won’t have to panic if/when your medication runs out.

If you’d like to learn more…

I recently hosted a webinar on these very topics.

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Below is the recording from our webinar on Why Wellness Fails to control medical costs, recorded on April 13, 2016.

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You’ve heard it before, maybe even believe it yourself:

“Eat the egg whites and trash the yolks!“

“Egg yolks are full of saturated fat and cholesterol – they are bad for you!”

The list goes on…

It’s hard not to get caught up in this line of thinking because it seems to be everywhere. After all, nearly every restaurant that serves breakfast has a “healthy breakfast option” that removes the yolks from the eggs.

Thinking this way is doing eggs all wrong. It’s time to stop the egg-yolk-phobia!